On photography / Susan Sontag.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Penguin, 1977.Description: 207 p. ; 18 cmISBN:- 9780141035789 (pbk.)
- 770.1 SON 23 003054
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In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image world -- A brief anthology of quotations.
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us.
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